The first table below looks at the demand for Windows skills in IT jobs advertised for the Hereford region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Windows over the 3 months to 22 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Operating Systems category for the Hereford region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows
Rank - 6 2
Permanent jobs citing Windows 0 11 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hereford - 33.33% 27.27%
As % of the Operating Systems category - 64.71% 50.00%
Number of salaries quoted 0 11 3
Average salary - £28,500 £19,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +46.15%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
All Operating Systems
Hereford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
4 17 6
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hereford 40.00% 51.52% 54.55%
Number of salaries quoted 4 17 6
Average salary £45,000 £28,500 £19,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+57.89% +46.15%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Windows
Herefordshire

Windows
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Windows across the Hereford region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Hereford Windows Jobs Demand Trend

Windows
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Windows across the Hereford region.

Hereford Windows Salary Trend

Windows
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hereford region citing Windows also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Windows.

1 7 (100.00%) C#
1 7 (100.00%) .NET
2 5 (71.43%) SQL Server
2 5 (71.43%) Finance
3 4 (57.14%) TDD
3 4 (57.14%) NUnit
3 4 (57.14%) MCTS
3 4 (57.14%) WCF
3 4 (57.14%) WPF
3 4 (57.14%) MVC
3 4 (57.14%) Scrum
3 4 (57.14%) WinForms
3 4 (57.14%) MCP
3 4 (57.14%) MCAD
3 4 (57.14%) MCSD
3 4 (57.14%) ASP.NET
3 4 (57.14%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (57.14%) Continuous Integration
3 4 (57.14%) Kanban
3 4 (57.14%) Spring.NET
3 4 (57.14%) ASP.NET MVC
3 4 (57.14%) Dependency Injection
3 4 (57.14%) Inversion of Control
3 4 (57.14%) MSTest
3 4 (57.14%) MVVM
3 4 (57.14%) Rhino Mocks
3 4 (57.14%) Moq
3 4 (57.14%) Castle Windsor
3 4 (57.14%) Ninject
3 4 (57.14%) Razor View Engine

Windows
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hereford region citing Windows also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Windows. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 7 (100.00%) .NET
2 4 (57.14%) WCF
2 4 (57.14%) WPF
2 4 (57.14%) WinForms
2 4 (57.14%) ASP.NET
2 4 (57.14%) Spring.NET
2 4 (57.14%) ASP.NET MVC
2 4 (57.14%) Castle Windsor
2 4 (57.14%) Ninject
2 4 (57.14%) Razor View Engine
2 4 (57.14%) ASP.NET MVC 4
2 4 (57.14%) Unity DI Container
3 2 (28.57%) COM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (71.43%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) NUnit
1 4 (57.14%) MSTest
1 4 (57.14%) Rhino Mocks
1 4 (57.14%) Moq
2 1 (14.29%) Visual Studio
General
1 5 (71.43%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Developer
1 4 (57.14%) .NET Developer
2 3 (42.86%) Analyst
2 3 (42.86%) Test Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Test Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) QA Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Inversion of Control
2 1 (14.29%) Chip and PIN
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) TDD
1 4 (57.14%) MVC
1 4 (57.14%) Scrum
1 4 (57.14%) Continuous Integration
1 4 (57.14%) Kanban
1 4 (57.14%) Dependency Injection
1 4 (57.14%) MVVM
1 4 (57.14%) Web Application Development
2 3 (42.86%) Test Scripting
3 2 (28.57%) Performance Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Automation Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) C#
2 3 (42.86%) SQL
3 2 (28.57%) C++
3 2 (28.57%) Java
3 2 (28.57%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) MCTS
1 4 (57.14%) MCP
1 4 (57.14%) MCAD
1 4 (57.14%) MCSD
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (28.57%) Degree
2 2 (28.57%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle